The four acquisition decisions the service will make in the coming months are the first fruits of a task force the Army created to pursue large-scale solar, geothermal, wind, biomass and waste-to-energy facilities on its bases.

A Maryland Army facility is now on an exclusive EPA priority list to clean up toxic waste contamination at a field where wastes associated with weapons production were dumped, contaminating the local water supply.

The Fort Detrick community celebrated the Army's 236th birthday on Saturday by honoring wounded service members at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.

Dozens of soldiers and Army civilians gathered Wednesday to listen to Holocaust survivor George Rabinek, a German-born Jew raised in Hungary, tell his story of being moved from one concentration camp to another until American soldiers finally liberated the camps in May 1945.